Genna Gardini

Genna Gardini

Genna Gardiniis a writer based in Cape Town. She was selected as one of the Mail& Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans for 2013. Later that year, she was announced as the winner of the 2012 DALRO New Coin Poetry Prize. She has had two plays produced at the National Arts Festival, WinterSweet (2012) and Scrape (2013), both of which won Standard Bank Ovation Awards. She is currently working on a new script for The Royal Court Theatre’s South African Residency programme. Gardini co-owns Horses’ Heads Productions with Gary Hartley. She is completing her MA in Theatre-making (Playwriting) at UCT. Follow her on twitter @gennacide